Another Laptop Hunters ad is out (this time they buy a Dell), and the ad sticks true to form – Go to Best Buy, thumb your nose at the Mac, walk away happy. These ads were good right out of …
Windows Live UI Controls
Following on from my previous tutorial on how to integrate the Windows Live Web Bar into your site, we’ll build upon this and show you some of the other UI controls that you can use in your site.
One thing …
LiveSide Auto News: OnStar to use Virtual Earth; Zune in GM cars
Just announced this morning is the news that OnStar, the General Motors “in vehicle safety and security” subscription service, will soon be using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth in their emergency response system. This means that OnStar operators will have access …
UMapper’s Virtual Earth Game, Improve Your Geographical Skills
Want to game and improve your geographical skills at the same time? Then UMapper’s Virtual Earth game “Geodart” is for you. GeoDart is a geography trivia game that invites users to answer geographical questions by placing answers …
Windows Mobile Facebook Application Update
The recently released Facebook Application for Windows Mobile already got an update. The team heard there were users having problems with installation, so they addressed this in a new version of the app. The update fixes hanging errors and …
Just what is Kumo, anyway? (And is it open source?)
Some 90,000 Microsoft employees are currently testing a new version of Live Search under the name Kumo (well, some of them are testing it, the other half are using Google, apparently). Expected to be released (or at least announced) …
Twitter explodes with Zune phone rumors
This morning a couple of tweets by “OfficeTheMovie”, which has now been confirmed to be not coming from Microsoft (the Office 2010 Twitter account is @office2010themovie), got everyone all atwitter about the possibility of a Zune phone launch …
Windows Mobile Marketplace Registration Now Open!
Windows Mobile Marketplace, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by Steve Ballmer, is opening the doors for developers as promised. The Windows Mobile Team announced it on their blog as follows:
…In the latest update to http://developer.windowsmobile.com
Zune ad hits at pocketbook
A new Zune ad campaign featuring financial planner Wes Moss attempts to hit iTunes users right where it hurts: in the pocketbook. The ad, appearing on the Zunepass.net website, calculates the costs for filling an iPod from iTunes versus using …
MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st
All things come to an end, same goes for the QnA beta. The team just announced the end of the beta and the closing of the QnA site:
…We are ending the QnA beta test and are closing the
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